H S E N E W S W O R K I N G T O G E T H E R F O R S A F E R W O R K P L A C E

The target audience for this newsletter is PDO Staff and contractors community.

Latest HSE Statis t ics YTD 31 s t October 2017

2016 2017

Lost T ime Injury Frequency (LT IF) 0.23 0.22

Workplace fata l i t ies 3 1

Non-work rela ted fatal i t ies 3 6

Non-accidental deaths (NADs) 11 16

Los t T ime In jur ies (LT I s) 37 40

All in jur ies (excluding f i rs t a id cases)

170 137

Motor Vehic le Inci-dents (MVIs) 82 85

Rol l over - MVIs 25 13

Ser ious MVIs 30 19

Vehic le Class A/B Defects

Class A 65

Class B 1573

L i fe Saving Rules V iola t ions

Permi t to Work (PtW) 34

Gas Tes t ing 11

Isola t ion (Lock Out Tag Out) 9

Confined Space En-try 0

Safety Cr i t ical Equip. Sys tem Over-r ide

15

Working at Height 37

Road Safety Seat Bel ts 50

Road Safety Journey Management (JMP) 29

Suspended Load 32

Smoking 16

Road Safety Alcohol Drugs 3

Road Safety Over-speeding/Use of GSM

39

HSE T ip

Continuous learning from incidents en-ables PDO & contractors to pro-actively eliminate and/or control hazards before another tragic or costly incident occurs.

MR. MUSLEH’s Learning from Incidents

Welcome to issue No. 13 of Mr. Musleh’s News, the communication which provides a ‘one stop shop’ for you to receive learning's from incidents in PDO and the oil and gas industry.

This month Mr. Musleh will summarise the learn-ing's from incidents of the lost time injuries (LTIs) and High Potential (HiPos) that have occurred during quarter two, 2017.

You can browse the incidents in the newsletter which have been de-signed to be read in an easy to digest format and delve deeper into the learning’s if you think the incident or learning is relevant to you.

Please disseminate this bulletin to your teams and use it in your tool box talks, HSE meetings and notice boards.

Index:

Tension release

Under pressure

Pay attention to your footing

Pinch points

Bails in motion

Swinging pipe crushes finger

Operator falls face first

Tangled load

Finger food

Hose fly’s

Look Behind you

Align the stud

Broken ankle on change-over

Trip on the stairs

Rollover

Side impact

Keep on rolling

Mast topples

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Tension release

The pipe was rested on tripods and due to stress relief the pipeline straightened and fell on the permit holders legs resulting in fracture.

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Under pressure

An Engineer was conducting disposal of charged sampling bottle. He left the sample plug un-opened and opened 3 valves leaving the pres-surized fluid inside. He hammered the piston when suddenly it blew out of the cylinder strik-ing the engineer in both of his hands.

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Pay attention to your footing

After laying the cellar pump’s suction hose, a Derrick man stepped over a kill line (30 cm above the ground level) injuring his foot.

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Pinch points

During running in the hole 11" tubing hanger, a Floorman was removing the slip's door, when the traveling block moved, pinching the Floor-man's right hand between the top of the slips and the tubing hanger.

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Bails in motion

While his hands were still holding the handles of the elevator, the bails tilted back, the elevator moved downwards and struck the Floorman' s finger resulting in a crush injury.

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Swinging pipe crushes finger

Roustabout started hand tightening hammer union connection. While doing so, he started to push the pipe by his thigh causing the pipe to swing in horizontal direction towards the cutting box. The movement of the pipe crushed the roustabout’s right hand index finger.

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Operator falls face first

Crane Operator climbed on the ladder to access the boom operating cabin. As he stepped on the carrier to enter the operating cabin, he changed his hand grip and lost his balance landing face down.

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Tangled load

2 Floor men were guiding and pushing a motor at the rig floor, the crane boom got entangled with Kelly spinner causing Kelly assembly to move and swing towards the motor. Both men were injured.

Link

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Finger food

A Cook was preparing dough-ball for chapatti with dough divider machine. Towards the end of the operation, the cook found that some gluten was stuck inside the hopper and pushed it down with his bare hand. Two of the cooks fingers slipped into the rotating screw shaft; amputat-ing his right hand thumb and index fingers. Link

Hose fly's

While laying hoses from a 40 Ton trailer. The technician was struck on the knees as the hose was released from under the pickup being used at the time. Link

Look behind you

When making a “U” turn to reach a shop on the other side of the road. A third party truck drove into the side of the canter. Link

Align the stud

The crew was trying to align the holes on the bottom flange of the BOP with the studs. When the BOP dropped the Roustabouts hand slipped from the body of the BOP trapping his ring fin-ger. Link

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Broken ankle on changeover

The Derrickman was standing close to ladder with fall arrester attached in preparation to de-scend. Driller lowered Top Drive System (TDS) which entangled and pulled the fall arrester line along with the Derrickman who fell on the mon-key board platform trapping his left leg. Link

Trips on the stairs

While carrying a cylinder up the stairs, his left foot slipped and he lost balance. The steel cylin-der struck his left hand against the stair step and the other side of the cylinder struck the right hand against the stairs. Link

Rollover

6 in the vehicle as it rolled over while negotiat-ing a sharp bend. Speed, road conditions, driver what went wrong? Link

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Side impact

The driver of the pickup veered across the traffic lane and into the side of an oncoming heavy vehicle and trailer. The pickup was close to the centre line at the time the heavy vehicle was unable to avoid the impact. Link

Keep on rolling

A pickup rolled over while negotiating a curve, the driver lost control and the vehicle moved left to the oncoming lane, he tried to regain con-trol but the vehicle skidded and rolled over 3 times. Link

Mast topples

During the raising of the mast, the Hoist became unstable due to uneven jacks leveling and tipped over trapping the driller between the hand rail and the ground resulting in a fracture to his right leg.

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